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Two people were killed in a three-car crash on Interstate 84 in Danbury on Sunday involving a disabled vehicle and a tractor-trailer.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
13 Jan. 2025 -
The Justice Department took no position on whether the city was wrong to change benefits for disabled retirees.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA TODAY,
13 Jan. 2025
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Kim, the Korean American artist, who is deaf, shared in an email that the billboard reflected personal frustrations.—
Travis Diehl,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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Older train cars often fail to provide reliable audible announcements, while visual announcements for D/deaf and hard-of-hearing passengers remain insufficient.—
Gian Carlo Pedulla,
New York Daily News,
5 Jan. 2025
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The researchers compared this process of injecting large training data of both diseased and healthy genes as similar to the way Open AI’s ChatGPT large language model ingests a vast corpus of the written internet.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
8 Jan. 2025
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Wait until mid-November to remove dead or diseased canes and reduce the overall size of the rose plant.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
11 Dec. 2024
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Still, lower interest rates, along with initiatives to boost tourism and revive the ailing local property sector, will support Hong Kong’s stock market, HSBC strategists said.—
Chloe Berger,
Fortune Asia,
9 Jan. 2025
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Pan additionally revealed cuts to existing mortgages and lowered the minimum mortgage downpayment from 25% to 15% for second-time homebuyers to support the ailing property sector, which many economists believe is the root cause of China’s numerous economic woes.—
Juliana Liu,
CNN,
27 Sep. 2024
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Both were charged with felony neglect of an incapacitated adult by a caregiver resulting in the incapacitated adult’s death.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan. 2025
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Crewmembers also practiced rescuing incapacitated astronauts, a critical requirement for LTV design.—
Andy Biggs,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
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Jean-Marie Le Pen was deemed unfit to testify. ___ Ganley, who retired from The Associated Press, contributed to this report.—
Thomas Adamson, Sylvie Corbet,
TIME,
7 Jan. 2025
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It's said in the books that the iron throne was built to cut anyone unfit to rule, which sums up Viserys (although, to be fair, it's easily done; the throne is made of swords).—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Medical Guidance on Flying With Illnesses For those who feel unwell but must travel, experts suggest taking precautions to reduce the risk of spreading illness.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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For every case such as Tomasini’s, there are several more in which people who advocates believe pose no threat to the public are unwell and kept behind bars, said Su Kim, senior policy manager for Uncommon Law, an organization that supports prisoners and sponsored AB 960.—
Mackenzie Mays,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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In a society where adults often come to work sick, teaching teens to take care of themselves is important.—
Maya Dollarhide,
Parents,
17 Jan. 2025
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In addition to the production losses, there are additional labor and supply costs to manage the outbreak in the herd, including separation and supportive care of sick cows.—
Kimberly Dodd,
The Conversation,
16 Jan. 2025
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